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Every work of the authors in the library’s orbit, in the reader or not: who wrote it, when, how it survives, where it can be read, and how it connects to other works. 82 so far. Where a field has not been checked against its source, it says so.
Checked on 2026-10-31
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TraditionAll (5)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (2)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (3)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
GenreAll (2)Scripture and exegesis (0)Ḥadīth and the Prophet's life (0)Law (0)Creed and kalām (0)Metaphysics and cosmology (0)Sciences of letters and names (0)Counsel and governance (2)The path (0)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
FormAll (2)Prose (2)Verse (0)Prose with verse (0)Diagrams (0)
LanguageAll (2)Arabic (2)Persian (0)Greek (0)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (0)Hebrew (0)Other (0)
PeriodAll (13)Archaic and classical Greek (0)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (0)Late antique (0)2nd century AH (2)3rd century AH (1)4th century AH (5)5th century AH (1)6th century AH (2)7th century AH (1)8th century AH (0)9th century AH (1)10th century AH (0)11th century AH (0)13th century AH (0)
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2 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▼AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
The Secret of Secretsسر الأسرار / كتاب السياسة في تدبير الرياسةPseudo-AristotleCounsel and governance2nd century AHArabicListed only
Pseudo-Aristotelian letters to Alexander (Arabic Alexander-romance epistolary corpus)رسائل أرسطو إلى الإسكندر; الرسالة في السياسة للمدنPseudo-AristotleCounsel and governance2nd century AHArabicListed only

Records

The Secret of Secrets

سر الأسرار / كتاب السياسة في تدبير الرياسة

Sirr al-asrār / Kitāb al-Siyāsa fī tadbīr al-riyāsa

Pseudo-Aristotle ((name borne by anonymous or later authors))

Philosophy · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 2nd century AH · Listed only

Aristotle teaches Alexander the 'secret' of kingship: justice, ministers, treasury, armies, health regimen, physiognomy, and the king's body as a kingdom ruled by reason.

Attribution
spurious: Presented as Aristotle's letter to Alexander; the Arabic version is credited to Yaḥyā (Yuḥannā) b. al-Biṭrīq, whom the TDV article names as its author or translator for the Ottoman reception. The Arabic origin and date are not yet checked. not yet checked
Date
Core 8th c.; two recensions (short, long) by 10th c., Umayyad/Abbasid chancery; Syria/Iraq (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī, al-Uṣūl al-yūnāniyya li-l-naẓariyyāt al-siyāsiyya fī l-Islām (Cairo 1954); Ismāʿīl/Manzalaoui; critical edition still a desideratum (Forster 2006) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • English from Arabic: A. S. Fulton in Steele (1920); no standard modern English from the Arabic · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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Pseudo-Aristotelian letters to Alexander (Arabic Alexander-romance epistolary corpus)

رسائل أرسطو إلى الإسكندر; الرسالة في السياسة للمدن

Rasāʾil Arisṭū ilā l-Iskandar; Risāla fī l-siyāsa li-l-mudun (Letter on the policy of cities)

Pseudo-Aristotle ((name borne by anonymous or later authors))

Philosophy · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 2nd century AH · Listed only

Aristotle, tutor of Alexander, counsels policy toward conquered cities and the control of the self;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
8th-9th c. Arabic, Umayyad/early Abbasid chancery (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • S. M. Stern, Aristotle on the World State (Oxford: Cassirer 1970); Maróth, The Correspondence between Aristotle and Alexander the Great (Piliscsaba 2006) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Maróth (partial English) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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